Women held up their underwear in the protests. Picture: Niall Carson/PA WireSource:AAP

Mary Crilly, head of Cork’s Sexual Violence Centre, said jurors in rape cases should never be told to have regard for what the women wore.

“I think it will put young girls off reporting and I don’t blame them,” she told the Examiner. “It is totally unfair and the victim is blamed all the times. We need to change what happens in the courtroom.”

In the controversial case the jury heard evidence the pair had gone up a lane and were lying down in a muddy area.

The defendant said that he could not get fully erect and did not think his penis went into her vagina.

“Then she (the complainant) was getting funny, it was like she snapped out of a buzz. She said stop and I stopped. We were going to have sex, she said stop and I stopped,” he testified.

Prosecutor Tom Creed SC said the victim was quite clear she did not consent.

The protesters called for victim shaming to stop. Picture: Niall Carson/PA WireSource:AAP